John Calvert

Rough Trade

Electronic 2011

Lana Del Rey

Born To Die

The Maccabees

Given To The Wild

An Econo History Of The Minutemen

John Calvert throws open the doors onto the strange and frightening world of the Minutemen

The Big Pink

Future This

Gorillaz

The Singles Collection 2001-2011

Amy Winehouse

Lioness: Hidden Treasures

Smashing Pumpkins

Siamese Dream (reissue)

Summer Camp

Welcome to Condale

Future Of The Left

Polymers Are Forever

HTRK

Work (Work Work)

30 Years On: The Wipers’ Youth Of America Revisited

The Wipers' Youth of America is 30 years old. John Calvert explains why it means so much to him

Future Islands

On The Water

Dos and Don’ts: Vice’s Scourge Of Unfortunate Dress

John Calvert speaks to Vice editor Andy Capper about the magazine's new book of its 'Dos and Don'ts' series

Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey

Even though her song 'Video Games' emerged a couple of months back, Lana Del Rey has already experienced equal parts adulation and suspicion. Here, John Calvert speaks to her about David Lynch, New York and the ghosts that hide behind her 'white picket-fenced cheer'. The NSFW YouTube clip contains strobing images

Iceage

New Brigade

My Own Private Nirvana: Revisiting Nevermind 30 Years On

Three decades on from Nevermind, John Calvert explores Nirvana's smash record in comparison to Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

Azari & III

Azari & III

TV On The Radio As Soundtrack To Bush & Obama’s America

Don't Let The Devil In: John Calvert takes a look at the work of TV On The Radio through the prism of a turbulent decade in American politics

Washed Out

Within Without

Relentless Raw Movement: Death Grips Interviewed

Death Grips are the single most exciting new thing we have heard in 2011. John Calvert asks Flatlander about their methodology, hip hop, Odd Future, California and mental illness. Image courtesy Death Grips.

John Maus

We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

Wu Lyf

Go Tell Fire To The Mountain

Antlers

Burst Apart

The Final Warning: Three Decades After This Heat’s Deceit

Thirty years after the release of This Heat's Deceit, John Calvert re-examines a record that embraced the Cold War terror of ultimate destruction - and made something far more complex, humane and moral than mere hatred

Death Grips

Exmilitary

TV On The Radio

Nine Types Of Light

John Foxx & The Maths

Interplay

Zwischenwelt

Paranormale Aktivitat

Wild Palms

Until Spring

Odd Future: Youth and Young Manhood

After Tyler The Creator signed to XL recently, John Calvert decided to sift through hundreds and hundreds of tracks to bring you the best - and most distressing - music from the Odd Future collective

Gang Of Four

Content